US media pushing for Biden to be a warmonger, pick fights and bully as much as possible.

[crimson5pheonix]

‘US Leadership’—and Other Euphemisms for War

Joe Biden doesn’t become president for a month and a half, but already sections of the corporate media are calling on him to use US power to dominate the world.

fair.org

Good to know my prediction that the media would immediately go back to normal post election was right. Biden's not even in office yet and media companies are already back to the old game of praising war, empowering dictators, reflexive commitment to starving countries, and all the other things I'm sure we could say are bad. But only in a platonic sense, never actually question when these abuses occur.

No no, America needs to be the world leader again and nuke China, it's the only way to recover from Trump, I'm sure.

 

[Silvanus]

Do these media companies have the faintest idea how America is perceived in the countries it's been "helping"? I'd have thought gauging that would be pretty integral to a news org's brief, if it's going to be pushing an editorial line on the matter.

 

[Chimpzy]

Coincidentally, $740 billion for the one thing both parties happily agree on

Senate approves defense bill with veto-proof majority in rebuke to Trump

The Senate voted overwhelmingly on Friday to approve a sweeping defense bill with a veto-proof majority, a major rebuke to President Donald Trump who has urged Republican opposition and threatened to veto the legislation. The vote was 84 to 13.

edition.cnn.com

 

[crimson5pheonix]

Coincidentally, $740 billion for the one thing both parties happily agree on

Senate approves defense bill with veto-proof majority in rebuke to Trump

The Senate voted overwhelmingly on Friday to approve a sweeping defense bill with a veto-proof majority, a major rebuke to President Donald Trump who has urged Republican opposition and threatened to veto the legislation. The vote was 84 to 13.

edition.cnn.com

Oh of course, because it was a stand against Trump and has nothing to do with it being absolutely massive, I'm sure. And in tying back to the OP article, CNN paints the support for the bill as bipartisan while opposition is partisan when both support and opposition is bipartisan. But we don't talk about that, this giant military spending bill is an attack by the GOP against Drumpf!

 

[Seanchaidh]

Do these media companies have the faintest idea how America is perceived in the countries it's been "helping"? I'd have thought gauging that would be pretty integral to a news org's brief, if it's going to be pushing an editorial line on the matter.

The military industrial complex doesn't care about that, so why should the news orgs that serve it?

 

[Eacaraxe]

Well yeah, all those defense contractor advertisements on the major cable news channels don't just pay for themselves, you know.

 

[Ravinoff]

Coincidentally, $740 billion for the one thing both parties happily agree on

Senate approves defense bill with veto-proof majority in rebuke to Trump

The Senate voted overwhelmingly on Friday to approve a sweeping defense bill with a veto-proof majority, a major rebuke to President Donald Trump who has urged Republican opposition and threatened to veto the legislation. The vote was 84 to 13.

edition.cnn.com

Passing the NDAA barely warrants a mention in the news, it's an annual boilerplate bill to fund the military. As in nobody's getting paid if Congress doesn't pass it. Not just the big scary military-industrial complex, the actual people in the Army/Navy/Air Force with jobs.

 

[Seanchaidh]

Passing the NDAA barely warrants a mention in the news, it's an annual boilerplate bill to fund the military. As in nobody's getting paid if Congress doesn't pass it. Not just the big scary military-industrial complex, the actual people in the Army/Navy/Air Force with jobs.

People in Congress can propose a (much) smaller bill that would pay officers and enlisted personnel separately if they want to. The size of the NDAA and its contents apart from that is newsworthy.

 

[Worgen]

Passing the NDAA barely warrants a mention in the news, it's an annual boilerplate bill to fund the military. As in nobody's getting paid if Congress doesn't pass it. Not just the big scary military-industrial complex, the actual people in the Army/Navy/Air Force with jobs.

The main reason its newsworthy is because trump was threatening to veto it because it didn't include provisions to remote section 230 protections from internet hosts. Otherwise its one of the most boiler plate funding bills around, that gets passed every year without much incident.

 

[crimson5pheonix]

Passing the NDAA barely warrants a mention in the news, it's an annual boilerplate bill to fund the military. As in nobody's getting paid if Congress doesn't pass it. Not just the big scary military-industrial complex, the actual people in the Army/Navy/Air Force with jobs.

Oh I didn't realize the average military grunt got $370,000 a year. Lmao how are people poor when you can just enlist for pay equal to a master's degree?

 

[Agema]

Coincidentally, $740 billion for the one thing both parties happily agree on

Part of Trump's special political incompetence is not realising that a lame duck president who just got his arse handed to him in an election has very little power to rage at and bully legislators into compliance. All those senators can just look at him and think "we're still in office in two months time, you're already history".

 

[Gergar12]

No, I disagree I want NATO to expand to punish Russia for cyberwarfare against us. It was a new administration, and they could have restarted relations. But nope.